The lost W
Great new theory on the two source synoptic problem which does away with all of those questions about Q. Hat tip to connexions.
Last year, we did Mark for Lent on signposts, during which we considered 40 readings from Mark more or less on the 40 days of Lent. I wanted to do something similar this year, and am proposing a whirlwind tour of the back half of the New Testament. I am toying with calling this “The Littlest of These”, being that the selection includes 9 books with 5 chapters or less, with Hebrews rounding out the numbers. The reading schedule includes Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Philemon and Titus.
The idea is that I will post up (hopefully regularly) the daily reading with some of my own thoughts, and people are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Don’t know how it will work with the focus on a whole range of books rather than just following one through the whole 40 days, but I wanted to go through a bunch of books I feel like I have neglected in my reading for the last couple of years, mainly because most of them are so short.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Good idea Dan - and I am just at the time when some structure like to read certain chapters would be good for me.
Janet McKinney
February 20th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of trying to understand a collection of books that gets more obscure with each passing generation. In spite of archeological discoveries, the Bible seems to be the cause of more non-productive argument than agreement.
If God was kind enough to write books relevant to particular times and cultures, how about we petition Him to give us a modern text.
So, please pray along with me:
“Dear God, we’re fed up grappling with the Bible. Please give us a text we can all understand clearly. And while you’re at it, make it clear this time whether you accept or disagree with homosexuality, tithing and speaking in tongues. Amen.”
February 20th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Wow, deja vu. Seems only a year ago that DonaldDuck and other completely unrelated third parties commented along similar lines in our Mark for Lent posts.
If you are “tired of trying to understand a collection of books that gets more obscure with each passing generation”, then I am sure that we will cope with your absence from these comment threads.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Ha, ha. But I appreciate your sense of humour.
It’s not entirely clear, however, which of the books mentioned above has God’s imprimatur. I would suggest that we shouldn’t be misled by some orthodox tradition of a complete canon.
Don’t get me wrong, however. I’d be quite happy with God making the odd blog entry.
Turning your comment around, how much longer can we cope with God’s absence from these comment threads?
February 20th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
I look forward to it